Wushu is a traditional sport with Chinese culture as the theoretical basis, attack and defense methods as the basic content, and routines, fighting and martial arts as the main sports forms. This is the definition of Wushu by Chinese Wushu Association, that is to say, routine is a branch of Wushu, and Wushu has not only routines but also fighting and martial arts.
There is a misunderstanding that Wushu is a routine. We should look back at our national conditions and culture to better understand the reasons why Wushu routines in China are highly artistic.
The formation of routines is not only due to the factors needed for performance, but also due to the factors of fitness, and it is also advocated by the government in a special historical period. "there lived years ago the beautiful Gongsun, who, dancing with her dagger, drew from all four quarters. An audience like mountains lost among themselves, heaven and earth moved back and forth, following her motions. This is the description of Gong Sundaniang's sword dance in a song of dagger-dancing to a girl-pupil of lady gongsun by Du Fu, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. It can be explained that the form of routines has been developing for a long time. On May 31, 1955, at the tenth meeting of the plenary session in the State Council, the work report of the State Sports Commission said, "The original Wushu groups in factories, mines, enterprises, schools and institutions should be rectified; No, it will not be established for the time being. Resolutely stop developing in rural areas, and the original martial arts activities can be led by the township government and the youth league, and should not be used by bad elements to do bad things. " This defines "martial arts", that is, "bad elements use tools to do bad things." Soon, martial arts activities were banned in rural areas, the main base of rural martial arts activities. There is no trace of martial arts in the countryside. After that, the development of Wushu has always been based on routines, and fighting is not advocated. Wushu majors in physical education colleges all over the country also practice routines, and Wushu competitions in the National Games are also routine competitions. There is no fighting sport.
Until the reform and opening up in 1979, with the resurgence of a martial arts craze in China; According to the modern competitive sports model, the Sports Commission of the Central Government of China first conducted the pilot training of Wushu antagonistic events in Zhejiang Sports Commission, Beijing Institute of Physical Education and Wuhan Institute of Physical Education. After that, Sanda was formed.
Therefore, after a long period of development, routines have gradually become synonymous with martial arts.